There’s a basic, simple solution that nearly doubles the number of children doing well in learning to read.
Grow Readers to Grow Communities
Literacy is always about sharing. It can serve as the accumulating glue that holds communities together and builds lasting paths to lifelong personal growth and enduring relationships in life.
They’re Watching Us
Our actions SHOW little ones our values.
Great question!
Kids learn to ask questions from the kinds of questions we ask of them.
Inhale, Exhale, Grow
Set the stage for lifelong learning by teaching kids to breathe in wonderful information through reading and to breathe out their experiences and thoughts through writing.
Be a Model–of Reading for Fun
If you want children to love reading, show them how much fun it is.
The End of Education?
Living is learning. If we aren’t learning, we are just existing.
“My Old Kentucky Home” and How It has Changed
Old books, songs and other media with racist content can be crucial conversation starters and catalysts for societal change.
Diverse Books Offer Kids a World of Possibilities
A wide variety of books can keep the humdrum and mundane of everyday life from elbowing out the truly glorious and fertile growth possibilities that are so much larger than what is offered to children at home or in the standard curricula of K-12 education.
The Gift of Literacy
Gifting a book is an expression of care.
You can do this! Just watch me!
Really, the only defensible goal of learning to read in school is not to increase yearly test scores, but to help children become eager, daily readers of self-selected books.